It's easy to develop web apps this way when you use
Apache::TEST (A-T). You can have an highly customized apache config run your tests. And A-T track dependencies too.
All in cvs.

My current problem seems to be that I'm stuffing
too many tests in it. Testing business rules for
base tables, for example. Maybe every city in the city table for some web app must have at least one row in the apartments table. It's easy for me to make a test that checks that, only that test is not really related to the web app, other than it makes sure the data is as we expect.

I started checking the data (every city must have an apartment) using the web app (Test::WWW::Mechanize running inside of A-T), but checking the module that pulls the data makes more sense.

So what I'm working on now is having a subdir in the test dir, t/, that holds these back end tests. At night I'll run all the tests, and during the day, I'll run
only the tests that are directly related to the web app before checking in during the day.

Apache-Test really allows you to carry your custom httpd.conf with your perl modules and your perl scripts and your tests suite in cvs (or subversion). It's not that hard to test things using A-T. I even have a test
that does html validation and link checking for my static pages - all my static pages are in cvs (and all are build using ttree
from Template Toolkit). For logging I use
Log::Log4perl, btw.

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Albert Einstein for having smelly feet
Alfred Nobel for his contribution to battlefield science
Burkhard Heim for providing the missing link between science and mysticism
Claude Shannnon for riding a unicycle at night at MIT
Donald Knuth for being such a great organist
Edward Teller for being the template for Dr. Strangelove
Edwin Hubble for pretending to be a pipe-smoking English gentleman
Erwin Schrödinger for cruelty to cats
Hedy Lamarr for weaponizing pianos
Hugh Everett for immortality, especially for cats
Isaac Newton for his occult studies
Kikunae Ikeda for discovering the secrets of soy sauce
Larry Wall for his website
Louis Camille Maillard for discovering why steaks taste good
Marie Curie for the shiny stuff
Nikola Tesla for the cool cars
Paul Dirac for speaking one word per hour when socializing
Richard Feynman for his bongo skills
Robert Oppenheimer for his in-depth knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita
Rusi P Taleyarkhan for Cold Fusion
Sigmund Freud for his Ménage ā trois
Theodor W Adorno for his contribution to the reception of jazz
Wilhelm Röntgen for the foundations of body scanners
Yulii Borisovich Khariton for the Tsar Bomba
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